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I have just 'celebrated' my 1 year anniversary of domaining.
After a year of flip-flopping with hosts, services, parking, software and "consulting" adventures....I thought I would compile my list of "what made it finally work"...
Things that I did WRONG -
1. bought typos - simply put, in the long run, it is just a waste of money and simply unethical. Typos can lead to loss of revenue with your most valuable domains due to parking/landing services lack of confidence in you producing quality traffic. The parking services elevate payouts over time with genuine, focused traffic and typos can diminish this relationship. There ARE ways around this and people DO make money with typos.
2. paid high hosting fees for a dedicated server - I thought that I had to have my own server to be able to make any money. simply put, not the case. Eliminating the size of grapics, page size, dead links and bad html formatting, saves you a tremendous amout of money in the long run.
3. Overuse of scripts. Scripts can be great, but, overuse and blind use are just not good. Beware of "preprogrammed" php scripts that "may" have someone ELSE's adwords account number in it. Beware of the OUTGOING links from the pages that are given to you for you to park you pages on. There are a lot of nice people in the world, but,.....there is NO such thing as a free lunch! I liked http://www.ppctemplate.net/ the best.
My Simple Review of Parking/Selling/Software
1. I sold the most domains via sedo and like sedo
2. I made the most money with parking with Domain Sponsor
3. I use Domain Research Tool on a daily basis and can not live without it
4. I buy my domains from Moniker because they are the cheapest - but, have MAJOR complaints about the their practices of changing dns records to their parking program without notice. In the long run, I have kept my VERY valuable domains with Network $olutions due to their unwavering level of service and safeguard of my domains.
5. Trafficz rocks as far as landing page beauty, but, did not pay out well for me. Their stats are the best in the industry....hands down.
I have YET to sell a domain via DNForum that I bought for 7 bucks. .....I assume it can be done, but, I have yet to do it.
That's my round up....
Hope it helps at least one person out there..
Anne
After a year of flip-flopping with hosts, services, parking, software and "consulting" adventures....I thought I would compile my list of "what made it finally work"...
Things that I did WRONG -
1. bought typos - simply put, in the long run, it is just a waste of money and simply unethical. Typos can lead to loss of revenue with your most valuable domains due to parking/landing services lack of confidence in you producing quality traffic. The parking services elevate payouts over time with genuine, focused traffic and typos can diminish this relationship. There ARE ways around this and people DO make money with typos.
2. paid high hosting fees for a dedicated server - I thought that I had to have my own server to be able to make any money. simply put, not the case. Eliminating the size of grapics, page size, dead links and bad html formatting, saves you a tremendous amout of money in the long run.
3. Overuse of scripts. Scripts can be great, but, overuse and blind use are just not good. Beware of "preprogrammed" php scripts that "may" have someone ELSE's adwords account number in it. Beware of the OUTGOING links from the pages that are given to you for you to park you pages on. There are a lot of nice people in the world, but,.....there is NO such thing as a free lunch! I liked http://www.ppctemplate.net/ the best.
My Simple Review of Parking/Selling/Software
1. I sold the most domains via sedo and like sedo
2. I made the most money with parking with Domain Sponsor
3. I use Domain Research Tool on a daily basis and can not live without it
4. I buy my domains from Moniker because they are the cheapest - but, have MAJOR complaints about the their practices of changing dns records to their parking program without notice. In the long run, I have kept my VERY valuable domains with Network $olutions due to their unwavering level of service and safeguard of my domains.
5. Trafficz rocks as far as landing page beauty, but, did not pay out well for me. Their stats are the best in the industry....hands down.
I have YET to sell a domain via DNForum that I bought for 7 bucks. .....I assume it can be done, but, I have yet to do it.
That's my round up....
Hope it helps at least one person out there..
Anne
